The pressure-wired Stokes element: a mesh-robust version of the Scott-Vogelius element

Authors Benedikt Gräßle, Nis-Erik Bohne, S. Sauter

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07)

Abstract: The conforming Scott-Vogelius pair for the stationary Stokes equation in 2D is a popular finite element which is inf-sup stable for any fixed regular triangulation. However, the inf-sup constant deteriorates if the "singular distance" (measured by some geometric mesh quantity

T h e t a_{m i n} > 0

) of the finite element mesh to certain "singular" mesh configurations is small. In this paper we present a modification of the classical Scott-Vogelius element of arbitrary polynomial order

k g e q 4

for the velocity where a constraint on the pressure space is imposed if locally the singular distance is smaller than some control parameter

e t a > 0

. We establish a lower bound on the inf-sup constant in terms of

T h e t a_{m a t h r m m i n} + e t a > 0

independent of the maximal mesh width and the polynomial degree that does not deteriorate for small

T h e t a_{m i n} l l 1

. The divergence of the discrete velocity is at most of size

m a t h c a l O (e t a)

and very small in practical examples. In the limit

e t a i g h t a r r o w 0

we recover and improve estimates for the classical Scott-Vogelius Stokes element.

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